Title: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: Richard Fairhurst on September 26, 2017, 11:09:25 OpenTrainTimes is showing a new Saturday service on the Cotswold Line from 6th January - the 12.22 from Paddington to Oxford is extended to Moreton-in-Marsh, and then returns as a 14.50 departure. Fills a two-hour hole in the timetable. HST timings, but who knows if it'll be an HST or an IET...
Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: DaveHarries on October 22, 2017, 00:01:07 The first IEP diagram is currently planned to come to the Cotswold line effective 02nd January 2018. See separate thread.
Dave Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: DaveHarries on October 22, 2017, 00:09:37 Hello all,
GWR have said on their website for a while now that, starting 02nd January, they hope to be running more of their new IEP (Class 800) trains. According to a site called RealTimeTrains there is a new diagram starting from that date which will see the following trains along the Cotswold line run by these new trains. From what I can tell this will include the following on Mondays to Fridays: 0547 London Paddington - Worcester Foregate Street 0825 Worcester Foregate Street - London Paddington 1122 London Paddington - Worcester Foregate Street 1355 Worcester Foregate Street - London Paddington 1652 London Paddington - Oxford 1831 Oxford - London Paddington 1952 London Paddington - Oxford That is as far as I can trace the diagram at present: these, along with anything else that gets added to the list, will be the only IEP diagrams on the Cotswold line until they add the next ones. HTIOI, Dave Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: JayMac on October 22, 2017, 00:18:43 IET.
Procure, design, build = IEP. Actual trains on the Greater Western = IETs. ;) Mods. One for the existing IET Diagrams thread? Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: rogerpatenall on October 22, 2017, 08:39:23 Hello all, . . . these, along with anything else that gets added to the list, will be the only IEP diagrams on the Cotswold line until they add the next ones. HTIOI, Dave Yup. I'd go along with that statement ;) Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: ChrisB on October 22, 2017, 10:59:20 Can't really disagree with that, can you? Covers all bases!
Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: Adelante_CCT on October 22, 2017, 13:25:44 5W14 is also penciled in as an 800. This would lead to the following also being an IET if that is in fact the case:
06:52 Paddington to Gt Malvern 09:54 Gt Malvern to Paddington 12:50 Paddington to Oxford 15:01 Oxford to Paddington 16:22 Paddington to Gt Malvern 19:42 Gt Malvern to Paddington Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: DaveHarries on October 24, 2017, 00:38:20 Yes indeed. I noticed that this evening. I think I will be delaying my return to work by a day in order to go get some photos if the weather looks reasonable: will probably head to Moreton-in-Marsh for them: nice mix of old and new involving IETs and semaphore signals.
Dave Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: DaveHarries on November 23, 2017, 00:28:52 Quick update on this one. RealTimeTrains also seems to suggest that there may be a few other Class 800 workings up the Cotswold line from 02nd January in addition to the ones already mentioned above. I will not post them here for now though as that could change: RTT appears to suggest that the diagrams would involve dividing and joining of Class 800s at London Paddington but I have heard elsewhere to "forget the attaching/detaching at the moment. Currently not happening." Unsure why.
Dave Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: grahame on November 23, 2017, 06:41:53 RTT appears to suggest that the diagrams would involve dividing and joining of Class 800s at London Paddington but I have heard elsewhere to "forget the attaching/detaching at the moment. Currently not happening." Unsure why. Were the five coaches detached to be shunted to wait for the same set coming back, attached to a different returning set, or sent on to Cardiff? Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: IndustryInsider on February 18, 2019, 12:40:20 Weekday booked HSTs along the Cotswold Line have now finished, presumably weekends too. So all services now 800/2s with five remaining Turbo operated services daily.
Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: ChrisB on February 18, 2019, 14:06:46 THere are still HST timings left on REalTimeTrains in March, along side IETs....so may not be.
Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: IndustryInsider on February 18, 2019, 14:21:59 Those timings are just that, timings, doesn’t mean that is the traction that is allocated. Indeed, all IET services are running to HST timings at the moment, in fact a couple are running to Turbo timings!
Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: ChrisB on February 18, 2019, 14:23:48 So why leave HSTs in RealTimeTrains then?
Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: stuving on February 18, 2019, 14:44:40 So why leave HSTs in RealTimeTrains then? Because those are the timings the timetable was worked out from, so they will not change until the new timetable starts in ... whenever. Though parts of the timetable can be tweaked at any half-year, this would make more sense as part of the major retiming (which after all has been prepared). Title: Re: Intercity Express Trains on the Cotswold line - merged topic Post by: ChrisB on February 18, 2019, 15:21:04 GWR expect their new timetable in December 2019, not January 2020.
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